Public Safety Academy

Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Stephen Suarez (left) and Elyssa Salazar (right) look on as Raul Lugo is lowered into a storm drain Wednesday before searching for a dummy victim during a training exercise in the Public Service Academy at Del Mar College’s West Campus.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Team members Stephen Suarez (from left), a King High School freshman, and Raul Lugo, a Moody High School freshman, look on as Elyssa Salazar, a junior at Tuloso-Midway High School, reacts as she dangles over a storm drain opening Wednesday. The students were lowered into the mock storm drain to search for a “victim” as part of a confined-space rescue.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Felicia Avila (left), a Robstown High School graduate, pumps air into a victim’s mouth as Alyssa Alvarado, a Taft High School senior, waits to continue chest compressions Wednesday. The pair pulled the dummy out of the college’s smoke-filled, two-story burn building before delivering first aid.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Stephan Suarez (center), a freshman at King High School, attaches a dummy victim to the line as Raul Lugo (left), a freshman at Moody High School, and Elyssa Salazar, a junior at Tuloso-Midway High School, wait for the victim to be pulled to the surface Wednesday.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Felicia Avila (left), a Robstown High School graduate, and Alyssa Alvarado, a senior at Taft High School, pull a victim out of the burn house Wednesday during a training exercise in the Public Service Academy at Del Mar College’s West Campus.